Wednesday, June 28, 2023

SWIMMING TO LOS ANGELES--The Summer Class Schedule--06/22/23/1010PDT

 22 June 2023--

     Market-French roll, toasted and coffee--

     Theme for StoLA, nothing in particular. Make it for whatever happens.


     The Summer 2023 schedule at UNR was at best passable, at worst intolerable. Up until the first day of class for Planetary Astronomy, there was still no syllabus, or class outline, posted on web campus. That class, a Monday through Thursday morning affair, was dropped in favor of the forensic anthropology class featuring the teaching assistant from spring semester linguistic anthropology. Enrollment there is low.

     Next, Professor Paromita Pain, an outstanding far eastern journalist instructor, offered a cybersecurity class. The hangup there was that crackpot who just won't go away wanting students to do police surveillance. The advantage, a web class; the disadvantage, the crackpot. That class was also dropped.  Looking at the journalism minor requirements, the class would have filled one of the 400 level classes. However, Dr. Pain has another class in the Fall 2023 semester which will do the same.